In my recent visit back to Los Altos I saw a few self driving vehicles and I'm hoping they get to the Villages soon. I believe in the technology, and believe it will be really helpful for an aging population. There are lots of people here that can't drive themselves, yet still have appointments and such. Self driving cars would enable them to keep their independence.
I've worked in Silicon Valley with brilliant minds from all over the world. I have no doubt there are engineers who are quite familiar with traffic circles, and have built their complexities into the software. There are even a few traffic circles in their beta testing area, with equally confused drivers, and the cars have been able to traverse them without issues.
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